...announcement that the index is getting updated.

As with all their Yahoo! Weather Reports, the announcement post by Dan Rampton warns

During this process, you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index

The question is " who really cares anymore?

Given the announcement post was a meagre 46 words and has a grand total of ZERO comments, it makes you wonder whether people still care about Yahoo! Search (including the staff).

We all know that Yahoo! will be shifting to Bings organic results sometime over the next 11-12 months, but is it too early to totally dismiss Yahoo! SEO.

At the end of the day, Yahoo! is still the 2nd most popular search engine in terms of usage and if you ask most website owners, it still delivers solid organic traffic.

So can you afford to ignore the SEO importance of Yahoo!? At this stage I would say no. I wouldnt be investing heavily in a Yahoo! specific SEO campaign, but its definitely still worth tracking and enhancing your Yahoo! performance.

Sitexplorer by Yahoo! is still one of the easiest ways to keep on top of your Yahoo! and general SEO stats such as backlinks etc. So at the very least, I would use the Yahoo! weather reports as a reminder to pop over to sitexplorer for your monthly check up!

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